The “ Air Quality Improvement in the Greater Beijing- Tianjin- Hebei Region — China National Investment and Guaranty Corporation’s Green Financing Platform Project” (referred to as “the Project”) is a loan project executed and implemented by China National Investment and Guaranty Corporation (referred to as “I&G”). I&G is a holding subsidiary of State Development & Investment Corp., Ltd. With sovereign loan from ADB and by way of financial intermediation loan, the Project establishes a green financing platform, aiming to promote the launch and implementation of air quality improvement subprojects in the Greater Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region through comprehensive utilization of credit enhancement, investment and financing and other means for special operation and management of funds.

The project borrows sovereign loan of €458 million with 15 years’ term, it is expected to leverage €3.6 billion in total investment, equivalent to 27 billion RMB. It mainly covers the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and its surrounding area like Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Inner Mongolia and Liaoning. The Project covers fields of energy conservation and emission reduction, clean energy utilization, green transportation and waste to energy.

It is estimated that there would be an energy conservation of 40.2 million tce, reduction of 27.34 million tons of CO2 emissions (in terms of carbon), and correspondingly reduction emissions of flue gas by 380 billion cubic meters, smoke and dust by 780,000 tons, SO2 by 51,000 tons and NOx by 360,000 tons, which would improve the air quality of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region greatly. This project allows multiple parties work together to design an innovative project including government, ADB, domestic financial institutions and project developers. It also allows State Development and Investment Corporation to (i) implement the Central Government’s strategy of "Five in One", (ii) strengthen the development of ecological civilization, and (iii) fully support the national priority of "Coordinated Development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Region".